Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 213
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[Page 213]
To our thinner blood it was perishing and everyone went round in about ten waistcoats and duffel suits.
To make matters more unpleasant the weather became rough and everyone was compelled to fug below. Still our agony was short lived and after using coal for three days we were ordered back to Jamaica.
After one days steam south a wireless came reporting a British merchant ship in imminent danger of capture and we were ordered to proceed three hundred miles off our course to investigate having already been four days and more at sea and having to keep enough coal to get to Jamaica we could not go very fast and of course on arriving at the fatal spot found nothing. Nor was anything ever heard of the matter - it was probably another ruse of the Huns to get us out of the way.
The weather remained vile till within a days steam of Kingston when it moderated the strong blow from the North being cut off by the circle of the Greater Antibes and so the sea sick souls could creep on deck again.